1.\" Copyright (c) 2014 The FreeBSD Foundation. 2.\" 3.\" 4.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 5.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 6.\" are met: 7.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 8.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 9.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 10.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 11.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 12.\" 13.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 14.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 15.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 16.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 17.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 18.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 19.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 20.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 21.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 22.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 23.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 24.\" 25.\" $FreeBSD$ 26.\" 27.Dd August 2, 2020 28.Dt VTFONTCVT 8 29.Os 30.Sh NAME 31.Nm vtfontcvt 32.Nd "convert font files for use by the video console" 33.Sh SYNOPSIS 34.Nm 35.Op Fl n 36.Op Fl f Ar font Ns | Ns Ar source Ns | Ns Ar compressed-source 37.Op Fl h Ar height 38.Fl o Ar output_file 39.Op Fl v 40.Op Fl w Ar width 41.Ar normal_font 42.Op Ar bold_font 43.Sh DESCRIPTION 44The 45.Nm 46utility reads source font files in either BDF or Unifont HEX format and 47outputs a binary font file, C source, or C source with font data compressed 48by using LZ4 compression method. 49The output in C source is intended to be used to embed the font into program 50binary. 51The binary font file is for use by 52.Xr vt 4 . 53HEX format files must have the file extension 54.Pa .hex . 55.Pp 56The following options are available: 57.Bl -tag -width "12345678" 58.It Fl f Ar font Ns | Ns Ar source Ns | Ns Ar compressed-source 59Specify the output format. 60The default is binary 61.Ar font 62file. 63.It Fl h Ar height 64Set font height. 65The default is 16. 66Font height is set automatically for BDF files and for HEX files that have a 67.Ql # Height: Ar height 68comment before any font data. 69.It Fl n 70Do not apply output filtering with C source output. 71.It Fl o Ar output_file 72Specify the name for the output file. 73.It Fl v 74Display verbose statistics about the converted font. 75.It Fl w Ar width 76Set font width. 77The default is 8. 78Font width is set automatically for BDF files and for HEX files that have a 79.Ql # Width: Ar width 80comment before any font data. 81.El 82.Sh SEE ALSO 83.Xr vidcontrol 1 , 84.Xr vt 4 85.Sh HISTORY 86The 87.Nm 88utility first appeared in 89.Fx 10.1 . 90